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January 12, 2019
How Saudi Arabia and Iran Use Islam in Foreign Policy
In a Brookings Institution podcast, Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid discuss their new paper, which focuses largely on how both Saudi Arabia and Iran employ Islam as a soft power tool in the conduct of their foreign policy, and also touches on case studies including Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, and Indonesia.